If I want you to use the vowel of your ... order to accomplish that? What would you suggest I write? Before I made a suggestion, I would want to be persuaded that there was some good reason for you to want me to use a vowel when you don't know

If I want you to use the vowel of your dialect that you think is best expressed by "AH", most ... be useless for me to write something like "poTAHtoe" in order to accomplish that? What would you suggest I write? Before I made a

You have a dialect where, say, "bird" is (bV"Id) and ... they say (oIst@) or (V"Ist@), they replace it with (V"rst@). I see. I saw it differently. Using (V) for the vowel in "but," (@) for the vowel in

This I don't understand. What rule do you have in mind which might, when misapplied, lead to "erster" from "oyster"? You have a dialect where, say, "bird" is (bV"Id) and it starts to get ridiculed

With whatever vowel of their dialect they think is best expressed by "AH", of course. Yes, as a communication of pronunciation "AH" is useless. How's that? If I want you to use the vowel of your dialect that you think is

Fonzie, might I convince you to help me raise objections to linguists' blithe and insulting decision to use the word "Philadelphia" to refer to the entire Upper Chesapeake pronunciation region? You think I don't know? I tell them

With whatever vowel of their dialect they think is best expressed by "AH", of course. Yes, as a communication of pronunciation "AH" is useless. It's not as bad as that. Many, if not most people, will recognize that

With whatever vowel of their dialect they think is best expressed by "AH", of course. Yes, as a communication of pronunciation "AH" is useless.

To me American pronunciations of "cot" generally sound either a ... of an American accent has something close to my "cat". I have a typical American accent. When you listen to my pronunciation of "caught" which is the

Skitt filted: You, obviously, speak a dialect of Dog (not a human language). I'm also fluent in Cat (and the related Mountain Lion), and have a serviceable smattering of conversational Coyote..r You'll have noticed then, that while Cat